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UP Law Bar Performance and QPI

May 31, 2008

Some time in the 90’s (don’t know when but it was after I graduated in ‘93), UP Law implemented a new rule which said that only students with grades higher than 2.75 (cumulative GPA) will graduate.  If at the end of each year, a student’s GPA falls below that rate, then he or she will be dismissed.  For freshmen, the cut-off was slightly lower (2.85, I think) to account for the inevitable culture shock everyone gets in the first year of law school. This whole program was called QPI which stands for Quantitative Point Index (at least that’s what I believe; it doesn’t really matter).  The objective of the QPI was to increase the percentage of UP Law Bar examinees. 

Well, did it work?

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